Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
253336 Composite Structures 2009 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

A study of static deformations and free vibrations of shear flexible isotropic and laminated composite plates with a first-order shear deformation theory is presented. The analysis is based on collocation with a Deslaurier Dubuc interpolating basis to produce highly accurate results. Numerical results for isotropic and symmetric laminated composite plates are presented and discussed for various thickness-to-length ratios. The high order collocation method presented in this paper proved to be very accurate for this type of problems and the numerical efficiency is as good as other numerical schemes for first-order shear deformation theories, such as finite element solutions.

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